• SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price

  By Tam Harbert | 09 February, 2010 04:30

  As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.

• Flash storage should be among top data center priorities: Gartner

  By Jon Brodkin | 04 December, 2009 03:37

  Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.

• IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  By Stephen Lawson | 15 October, 2009 08:16

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

• Flash can eliminate imbalance between server and storage performance

  By Jon Brodkin | 15 October, 2009 08:12

  The rise of flash memory in the enterprise data center will help eliminate a fundamental imbalance between the performance of servers and storage, Sun storage chief John Fowler told attendees at Storage Networking World.

Whitepapers about flash storage

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  Two May Be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together

  This white paper will explore the need for a caching and buffering technology between DRAM and HDDs and why Flash memory can be used to fill this need. We will go on to look at various ways that Flash and HDDs can be combined in a computer storage hierarchy. These technologies to combine Flash memory and HDDs include hybrid HDDs, Flash on the computer motherboard, and a combination of Flash and HDD storage devices in the same computer – paired storage systems.